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Sunday May 11,2008

People don't want to believe NDE's

by Leroy Kattein

I had a NDE several years ago. It was a beautiful, positive experience. It changed my life. It showed me hope and love are real. Why do some people try to say the NDE is not real?

To my knowledge, it is the people who have not experienced a NDE that claim they are unreal. Every NDEer that I have met, knew, what they experienced was real. But we can examine some of the arguments and talk about what might be a solution to the problem.

Defining the real NDE:

The first problem seems to be agreeing on what constitutes a real NDE. Some researchers like Dr. Raymond Moody have published lists of the events they feel necessary to constitute a real NDE. Others have written about the emotional value, pointing to the changed personality and life style of the experiencer, as a requirement to be called a real NDE. However, the only true way to understand what a NDE consists of, is to read a few hundred of them. Yes, a few hundred. I also suggest you read NDE accounts at least 10 years old or older. Since the NDE has become a media sensation, many questionable "me too" NDEs have appeared that blur the older accounts quasi-consistency. The older accounts will all differ in content and length, but there will be a certain mood, and sameness to them, that can only be discovered by reading a large number of them. Experiencing my own NDE, and reading hundreds of other's NDE accounts, I have written a summary called a NDE, what is it that I believe covers the main points of the real NDE.

Defining the critics and their arguments:

The critics of NDEs come mostly from that group of people who believe in a mechanical world. Those who believe nothing exists beyond the physical. This group includes Scientists who have theorized that NDEs can be induced by chemical (drugs), electrical (brain stimulation), and/or severe loss of oxygen to the brain. A few of these Scientists have run experiments with drugs and announced that they induced NDEs in their subjects. While it is true, that the subjects of these experiments, did experience a few of the background events common to most NDEs, such as seeing light, feeling loved, knowledge of Oneness; none, NONE of the subjects experienced a full-blown real NDE. What they did experience is common to what meditation experts experience without drugs. Drugs do not cause the experience, they only allow it to happen by lowering the physical perception and focus. It is like they went to the swmming pool and stuck their big toe in the water, then came back and told everyone they went swimming. Unfortunately the media gives credit to what they say and many people have been misinformed. This misinformation will continue to proliferate until the public learns more truth about the NDE phenonmenon.